{"id":6053,"date":"2025-11-24T10:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:49:30","slug":"korean-hanwoo-enters-uae-market-targeting-lucrative-halal-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/ja\/trade\/6053\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Hanwoo Enters UAE Market, Targeting Lucrative Halal Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/article\/10605101\">Koreaherald.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">South Korea has officially begun exporting Korean beef to the United Arab Emirates, marking its entry into the Middle East&#8217;s halal market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Rural Affairs on Thursday, the first shipment \u2014 1.5 metric tons of refrigerated, frozen Korean beef \u2014 departed from Incheon Airport earlier in the day, bound for the UAE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The milestone shipment makes the UAE the fifth official importer of Korean beef, joining Hong Kong, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, as Korea continues to diversify its agricultural exports beyond Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Premium Positioning Targets High-End Meat Consumers<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Agriculture Ministry highlighted the UAE&#8217;s strong potential as a premium beef market, noting that the country imports more than 90 percent of its beef consumption with rising demand for high-end meats such as Japanese wagyu. Korean beef, known locally as hanwoo, is expected to find a niche among consumers seeking quality halal-certified alternatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>&#8220;The UAE export is not just an expansion but a meaningful step into the 1.9 billion-person halal market,&#8221;<\/em> said Vice Agriculture Minister Kang Hyoung-seok, adding that the ministry plans to support exporters through local promotions with additional market-access negotiations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Officials said they will continue to strengthen quarantine cooperation alongside promotional campaigns to position Korean beef as a premium product in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Original Article:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Korea Herald. (2025). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Korean beef makes debut in UAE, tapping halal demand<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The Korea Herald. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/article\/10605101\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Koreaherald.com South Korea has officially begun exporting Korean beef to the United Arab Emirates, marking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3860,206,111,62],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trade","tag-food-export","tag-halal-beef","tag-halal-market","tag-south-korea","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6055,"href":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions\/6055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/souqtimes.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}